Actually, it should be required by state law, for abortions at a stage where the fetus is capable of feeling pain. State laws do not allow inhumane methods of euthanizing unwanted or sick animals.
Definition 1: A drug, administered for medical or surgical purposes, that induces partial or total loss of sensation and may be topical, local, regional, or general, depending on the method of administration and area of the body affected.
If anesthesia is being administrated to a body explain to me how they can justify the fetus as a non-entity or mass of cells. If you have a body can you not prove murder. It is a mainstay of a prosecuters case in a homicide.
Definition 2 : loss of sensation and usually of consciousness without loss of vital functions artificially produced by the administration of one or more agents that block the passage of pain impulses along nerve pathways to the brain.
Same argument, if the anesthesia is being administered to an entity with a brain their whole Pro Choice argument should be thrown out with yesterday's bath water.
Any lawyers in the crowd?